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R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: Inayah, Baby Jungle & Rob49, Genia and More
Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like 03 Greedo and Nao Yoshioka.
After flipping Fantasia ‘s classic “When I See U” into her own biting R&B smash, Inayah offers up her new album, Wait, There’s More, which comes complete with indisputable bangers such as “Pressure.” Here, the Houston-bred singer makes her way over to New Orleans to re-contextualize the vibrant verve of bounce music into an impassioned plea for her partner to prove how badly he wants to have her. Skilla delivers the most random trio of pop culture references heard so far this year in rap while name-dropping former New York Knick Obi Toppin, Monsters, Inc.’s Mike Wazowski and Problem Child character Junior Healy. “I’m tired of not feelin’ enough/ I see the end before it’ll come/ You got me to a place where I’m numb / That’s what I get for bitin’ my tongue,” Genia croons in the chorus of her soul-baring “Bottling It Up.” The only thing harder than keeping your true thoughts and feelings inside is admitting that you were purposely suppressing those emotions.
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